Your Tongue Is an Indicator of Having a Disease: These Are The Symptoms

Symptoms of having a disease are shown in different ways, but what you might not know is that the signs of the disease can be seen in your mouth, specifically the tongue.

The tongue helps physicians in the diagnosis. On it can be seen signs of a cold, fever, hepatitis C, headaches, or bad intestines performance.

In a healthy person the tongue should be pink, clean and covered with tiny bumps that recognize tastes.

How a healthy tongue should look like.

But when the tongue is red, black or white, it indicates that something is not right in the body.

Swollen tongue usually means that you have some kind of allergies and a dark tongue can mean excessive use of antibiotics or symptoms of AIDS.

Long ridges on the tongue might indicate that you have a sexually transmitted disease-syphilis. Sleek and sturdy tongue suggests a lack of vitamin B12.

The most serious things that can be seen on the tongue are sores, bumps or sudden bleeding on the tongue, which indicates tongue cancer.

Early tongue cancer symptoms.

Indian doctors have designed a software that should help, using a digital image which is obtained by the mentioned software, physicians can clearly detect whether there has been a change in color, texture or bloating languages. The software for now recognizes 14 different states, and doctors hope to soon be able to develop a similar program that will be able to read the same data from the eyes.

What scientists also found was that long, but thick tongue can be a cause of snoring.